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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Angela Merkel U-turn, now offers millions in taxpayer cash for migrants to return home. Hundreds of thousands in Germany are from 'safe' countries, not war-torn, don't qualify for asylum. Deportation policy is individually implemented by 16 regional German governors-Daily Mail

"The German chancellor agreed measures to speed up deportation. An estimated 450,000 rejected migrants are set to be sent home. Scheme includes£76million ($95 million US dollars) of cash incentives to leave voluntarily"

"Angela Merkel will offer
cash handouts worth millions of pounds for migrants to leave Germany in
an effort to silence criticism of her ‘open-door’ border policy.

In
a highly-embarrassing U-turn over the ill-fated plan, which saw
1.2 million migrants flock to the country, Mrs Merkel has now vowed to
send many of them home.The German
chancellor agreed a package of measures to speed up the deportation
process for an estimated 450,000 migrants who have been rejected asylum....

Many will see the move as a
desperate attempt for Miss Merkel to claw back support ahead of her
challenging re-election bid in September.

Criticism
of her decision to leave Germany’s borders open and welcome all
refugees during Europe’s migration crisis in 2015 has led to a surge in
support for anti-immigrant parties.

Flaws in the open borders system were
highlighted in the aftermath of last year’s Christmas market attack in
Berlin when it was revealed that Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri had been
denied asylum months earlier.

The plans
agreed by Miss Merkel will allow officials to analyse asylum seekers’
telephones in an attempt to verify their identity, while rules for
detaining migrants will be widened.

The
proposed crackdown, which has been criticised by human rights groups,
will also include the creation of a department in Berlin to co-ordinate
mass deportations.

As part of the 16-point plan, a number of
‘federal departure centres’ will also be established near airports to
hold migrants before they are deported.

Miss
Merkel admitted that relying solely on migrants putting themselves
forward for deportation would fail to tackle the huge backlog of
rejected requests.

‘We rely heavily on
voluntary departures, but we know that voluntary departures will not
take place if people know that there is never a mandatory return to
their home country,’ she said.